Obama health push a waste of time

Last week marked a full year in which President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hijacked our Congress during the worst recession since 1929, with millions of Americans out of work and our economy falling off a cliff.

In 2009, the Obama administration completely focused the Congress away
from these massive, critical economic issues. Instead, it arrogantly
made the Congress deal with numerous highly unsuccessful attempts to
pass health care legislation.

What is really amazing is that in all of 2009, Obama argued with his
own party to enact one of these bills. For the entire year, Democrats
had enough votes to pass a final version of “Obamacare” in both the
House and Senate without needing a single Republican to join them. But,
Obama could not get even his own party to agree with him!

Why? Because the American people rose up in 2009 and said, “We do not
like these bills. We do not want government control of our health care.
We do not want the mountain of debt this will bring.”

Some Democrats listened to the citizens and did not vote “yes,” or
would not agree to all provisions the president wanted. Obama, Pelosi
and Reid tried everything they could to buy or threaten their fellow
Democrats into submission. Again, they failed over and over.

Unbelievably, we are now beginning Year Two of this absurd quest!

Obama’s explanation for his protracted failure in 2009 is that the
citizens just don’t understand his plan. He talks down to us as if we
are children who are not capable of grasping the intellectual level of
his speeches.

Obama recently conducted a TV charade of bipartisanship with
Republicans, all the time knowing what he was going to do next.
Ignoring the polls showing that 58 of Americans do not want his plan,
he has determined to ignore our cries and instead push this bill
through on his own. That means he, Pelosi and Reid will engage in a
legislative “trick” whereby he only needs 51 of 100 votes in the Senate
to complete this arrogant quest. This may tie up the Congress for
months to come.

We now sit in month 13 with our president so obsessed with his need to
obtain government control of health care that he appears willing to
allow the American economy to flounder endlessly and the American
people to remain without hope of finding jobs.

Admittedly, we citizens may have limited intellectual capabilities on
these complex legislative issues, but Mr. President, may we ask, “What
part of NO don’t you understand?”
What we, the people, do understand is Obama’s friends in the unions
need his help for their pension and insurance funds to remain solvent.

Could this be the reason he’s giving the bum’s rush to the rest of us citizens?